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Long time lurker, first time poster, just had to ask this rules question to get your take on it.

My Wraithlord has a scatter laser and bright lance combo. My opponent was running a land raider. I shot my scatter laser at the land raider because I wanted to get twin-linked on my bright lance. His vehicle was obscured by cover so he would normally get a cover save from my shooting. He said he was going to take a cover save from the scatter lasers because he wanted to avoid the twin-linking of the bright lance.

I was not sure about this, I thought vehicle cover saves are against armor penetration rolls, not to hit rolls, much the same way cover saves are against to wound rolls.

So should he have received a cover save against my to hit scatter laser roll?

Cover saves are only against Pens/Glances. There's no way to stop a hit.

Thanks! That is what I figured

It is the same situation for Tau Markerlights; They do not produce wounds and therefore avoid cover saves. Even though it would be logical that intervening cover means the marker could be blocked, the mechanics of the game do not account for that. It would take a house rule, and your agreement to said house rule, in order to grant a cover save against targeting systems.

Im almost 99% certain that you cant use the laser-lock rule on your wraithlord as it is a monstrous creature, not a vehicle

Sorry dude, but that makes you 99% wrong. Wraith lords definitely do benefit from laser lock. The rule states 'if a MODEL is firing one or more weapons with this special rule.....' Nothing to do with unit type.

Khaine's Wrath wrote:
Sorry dude, but that makes you 99% wrong.

Hey I'll take the 1% thats cool... Pretty sure, according to you, that me being wrong = 100%

Haha, it does, but I'm not a nasty person! I think the only requirement is that the model can fire more than one weapon.

I would agree thats what it says, I just couldnt remember if vehicle was in there anywhere.

Cant the Wraith Knight only fire 1 cannon if it fires the scatter laser since monstrous creatures can only fire 2 weapons?

If that were the case I'd rather have 2x 3+ to hit than 1 TL 3+

wtnind wrote:
Cant the Wraith Knight only fire 1 cannon if it fires the scatter laser since monstrous creatures can only fire 2 weapons?

If that were the case I'd rather have 2x 3+ to hit than 1 TL 3+

OP is talking about a Wraithlord, not a Wraithknight. Though I very much agree in the case of Wraithknights.

 Quanar wrote:

wtnind wrote:
Cant the Wraith Knight only fire 1 cannon if it fires the scatter laser since monstrous creatures can only fire 2 weapons?

If that were the case I'd rather have 2x 3+ to hit than 1 TL 3+

OP is talking about a Wraithlord, not a Wraithknight. Though I very much agree in the case of Wraithknights.

From a tactics point of view the same applies to the Lord why not just take 2 BLs rather than a SL to twin link the BL...

It's a very situational ability.
Still could be usefull for the Wraithknight with the big plasma style gun.